vi-like keys

Miguel de Icaza miguel at ximian.com
Sun Jan 30 20:31:33 UTC 2005


Hello,

> as I read it, mc does not handle vi-like keybindings yet. I
> just set up opera/mozilla/mutt/slrn/bash/gnuplot to use
> vi-like keybindings and love it :-)
> 
> Does anybody know, when mc will be able to do that? Or is it
> maybe easier to take a look at the source by myself and
> adjust some keys? If so, where should I start?

Doing so would be relatively hard, as MC would have to become modal
aware: when you type `j' did you mean to type `j', or move the
selection?

For some other keys, it could be done, but it would require a
significant amount of work and debugging, and would still left much to
be desired.

Miguel.



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